Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 83
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Allred
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cussed the governor, this would help the Graves image. Looking
at it from a political standpoint, he felt that the more "Whitey"
slapped him down, the more he was helped. And in his district
that might be true. But I felt that, like the people who went out
of their way to cut the governor for no particular reason, Curtis
was cutting his own effectiveness in the process. I felt that if
he wanted to be strictly a spokesman for the Negro, which he
apparently did, he could have been much more effective if he had
been a little bit more moderate in his actions. But I can imagine
that a great deal of resentment could be built up by a Negro due
to the undeserved slurs any Negro receives. And I know it's very
difficult for a man to grow up under the stigma of prejudice which
he's undoubtedly had to face all his life. But Curtis was so
much in contrast to Joe Lockridge.
Now, of course, Joe was from a different situation, too.
Curtis was from a predominantly Negro district in Houston. As
someone told me in trying to get me to support the bill proposing
liquor by the drink, which I opposed, "Now we understand that the
first law of nature is you've got to get re-elected, and everybody
knows his own district, but we wanted to see if you felt that you
could support our bill." And I told them I couldn't, not only
from a political standpoint, but also from personal belief as well.
Anyway, Curtis was from a particular district. In Dallas the
present custom is to elect at large from Congressional districts.
Dallas County, I think, has three Congressional districts in it
now. A candidate runs at large within a Congressional district.
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Marcello, Ronald E.; Kamp, H. W. & Allred, David. Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967, book, November 20, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223569/m1/84/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.